The Gorky incident - Simplified spelling - Something about repentance - From an English notebook : The Albert Memorial Old Saint Paul's The British Museum - From the manuscript of "A tramp abroad": the French and the Comanches - From unfinished burlesque of books on etiquette : At the funeral At a fire Visiting cards - The damned human race : Was the world made for man? In the animals' court Zola's La terre The intelligence of God The lowest animal - The great darkĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:03:38 Associated-names De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955, editor Smith, Henry Nash, writer of preface One Plus One Studio, cover designer Boxid IA40163214 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Letter to the earth - A cat-tale - Cooper's prose style - Official report to the I.I.A.S.
Letters from the earth - Papers of the Adam family : Extract from Methuselah's diary A later extract from Methuselah's diary Extract from Eve's autobiography Passage from Eve's autobiography The world in the year 920 after creation Two fragments from a suppressed book called "Glances at history" or "Outlines of history" Extract from Shem's diary of 920 A.C. Includes bibliographical references (page 303) Cover photographs courtesy Culver Pictures."-Back cover Because no one knew how to tell a joke so well, could tell the unvarnished truth so searingly well & still be liked. Like some of Mark Twain's lesser-known short pieces, some of these just don't land the knockout punch but there are some in this book that do and that is why we still read Twain today. Other short stories in the book include a bedtime story about a family of cats Twain wrote for his daughters, and an essay explaining why an anaconda is morally superior to Man. This is Mark Twain at his darkest, raw, jeering, pulverizing yet still a brilliant humorist. The title story consists of eleven letters written by the archangel Satan to other archangels. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Another reason for Clara's approval was that she felt that the Communist's claim that her father's views were suppressed in America was incorrect.
But she changed her mind in 1962, feeling that "Mark Twain belonged to the world" and that public opinion had become more tolerant. She felt that probably because of its controversial and iconoclastic views on religion, that it presented a "distorted" view of her father. Initially, his sole heir, daughter, Clara Clemens, objected to its publication in March 1939. It was written during a difficult time in Twain's life he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and two of his three daughters. One of Mark Twain's posthumously published works, most of it written shortly before his death.
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